In a clip for the Toronto International Film Festival, Call Me By Your Name author Andre Aciman dissects the differences between the peach scene in the book vs the film, and why the film’s works so incredibly well.

Aciman says that he met actress Tilda Swinton about four years ago and the first thing that she brought up to him was the peach scene.

“She had obviously read the book and the first thing that impressed her was the peach scene.”

Explains Aciman: “The peach scene is so essential, partly because it’s so shocking. But also at the same time because it’s the most intimate moment between the two men.”

“In the book, Oliver eats the peach,” adds Aciman. “And he says, ‘Because I want every part of you. If you are going to die, I want part of you to stay with me, in my system.’ And that’s the way I’m going to do it. In the film he just puts his finger and almost licks it. And that is good enough for cinema. We don’t need to see more. It is absolutely superlative.”

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Of course, there may actually be more stories to tell about these characters.

“I think Elio [Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile, and I’d like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali’s Once More,” a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS. “That,” said Guadagnino, “could be the first scene [in the sequel].”

To justify his idea of a Before Sunrise sort of film trilogy, Guadagnino cites the final 40 pages of Aciman’s novel, which look ahead to the next 20 years in the lives of Elio and Oliver.

Added Guadagnino: “In my opinion, Call Me can be the first chapter of the chronicles of the life of these people that we met in this movie.”

Guadagnino, appearing at the BFI London Film Festival, spoke of his sequel plans during a Q&A: “I want to do a sequel because Timothee Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel – they are all gems. The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them. They are young but they are growing up.”

The sequel would be set seven years later and Guadagnino says his ideal scenario would be for the second film to be made for a 2020 release. This would put Chalamet about the same age as his character, while Hammer would be just two years older (as opposed to five years older like in the first).

In the original book, Elio and Oliver meet up 15 years later in the United States with Oliver now married with a wife and children. Guadagnino says unlike the book, Elio’s character won’t necessarily turn out to be gay: “I don’t think Elio is necessarily going to become a gay man. He hasn’t found his place yet. I can tell you that I believe that he would start an intense relationship with Marzia [Esther Garrel’s character] again.”

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